The mentor's mindset: overcoming and thriving
With Lorraine Donachie, Leadership and mental coach
Lorraine is a leadership and mental coach, and this was one of those conversations that stays with you. The frame she keeps coming back to is questions over advice: when someone is stuck, the move is rarely to tell them what to do, it is to ask the question that lets them find it themselves.
We get into what she would tell her 20-year-old self, how she thinks about finding the work that lights you up, and how she makes the genuinely hard decisions, the ones where the right answer for your wellbeing is not the comfortable one. Plenty in here for any founder carrying more than they let on.
Key takeaways
- Ask reflective questions instead of handing out advice. It grows people far more.
- Find what lights you up, then surround yourself with people who back you.
- Make the hard calls based on what is best for your wellbeing, not on how they look.
- Treat failure and challenge as the raw material for growth, not proof you got it wrong.
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